1980 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: José López Portillo
• Interior Secretary :
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs :
• Communications Secretary :
• Education Secretary :
• Secretary of Defense :
• Secretary of Navy:
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare:
• Secretary of Welfare:
• Secretary of Public Education:
• Tourism Secretary :

  Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court:

  Governors

• Aguascalientes:
• Baja California:
• Baja California Sur:
• Campeche:
• Chiapas:
• Chihuahua:
• Coahuila:
• Colima:
• Durango:
• Guanajuato:
• Guerrero:
• Hidalgo:
• Jalisco:
• State of Mexico:
• Michoacán:
• Morelos:
• Nayarit:
• Nuevo León:
• Oaxaca:
• Puebla:
• Querétaro:
• Quintana Roo:
• San Luis Potosí:
• Sinaloa:
• Sonora:
• Tabasco:
• Tamaulipas:
• Tlaxcala:
• Veracruz:
• Yucatán:
• Zacatecas:

  Events

• Zeta is founded.
• The Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas is established.
• The Centro de Investigaciones en Optica is founded.
• The Ollin Yoliztli Prize is awarded for the first time.
• The Palacio de Lecumberri starts housing the General National Archive
• July 31–August 11: Hurricane Allen.
• October 24: 1980 Oaxaca earthquake.

  Film

• List of Mexican films of 1980.

  Sport

• 1979–80 Mexican Primera División season.
• Saraperos de Saltillo win the Mexican League.
• Mexico at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
• Mexico at the 1980 Summer Paralympics.
• Correcaminos UAT founded.

  Births

• March 18 — Olga Vargas, synchronized swimmer
• March 30 — Mauricio Vila Dosal, Governor of Yucatán 2018–2024
• November 15 — Diego Sinhué Rodríguez Vallejo, Governor of Guanajuato starting 2018

  Deaths

• March 18 — Erich Fromm, German-Northamerican psychologist and philosopher who lived in Cuernavaca from 1956-1976
• May 13 — Carmen García González, wife of President Emilio Portes Gil